Wildfires of 2007

Unnamed Fire

2007AlaskaWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 512 acres in Alaska, in 2007. It was discovered on July 5, 2007, and contained on July 5, 2007. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
512 acres
Discovered
July 5, 2007
Contained
July 5, 2007
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,827 acres. Point of origin as reported, 65.398, -141.230.

The record

Reported final size
512 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,827 acres
Discovered
July 5, 2007, 8:41 p.m. local time
Contained
July 5, 2007, 9:12 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Alaska
Land ownership at origin
Tribal
Reporting unit
Alaska Fire Service
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
AK6539014123320070705
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
W-545566

The three sizes are three measurements: the size the agency reported when the fire was out, the burned area MTBS drew from satellite imagery before and after, and the GIS area inside the final perimeter, unburned islands included. They rarely agree exactly.

Other large fires in Alaska in 200712

FireAcresStartCause
Anaktuvuk River Fire256,734Jul 16, 2007Natural
Caribou Hills Fire56,254Jun 19, 2007Human
Coffee Can Lake Fire43,705Jul 5, 2007Natural
Little Delta Fire33,452Apr 29, 2007Human
Woodchopper 2 Wfu Fire22,011Jun 6, 2007Natural
Mooseheart Fire21,508May 23, 2007Natural
Coleen Fire20,937Jul 9, 2007Natural
Ladue Fire19,246
Hodzana River Fire18,050May 22, 2007Natural
Little Big Creek Fire17,717Jul 8, 2007Natural
Runt Creek Fire9,807Jul 9, 2007Natural
Su River Fire8,494Jun 20, 2007Natural

Every fire of 2007 Alaska fire history

Sources

Burned areas and ignition dates from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), a program of the US Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service. Fire reports from Short, Karen C. 2022, Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014], 6th Edition, Forest Service Research Data Archive, doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6. Records before 2014 were joined by this site: a fire report to the burned area its MTBS identifier names, a perimeter to the burned area it lies in when the names or the sizes agree.